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Southeast Colorado | To give you a specific example of what I mean by immoral..........a good farming practice here would be to fallow your land if there was not adequate moisture in the soil profile to have an honest shot at growing the next crop. Some farmers here strictly look at how the crop insurance would pay out on all of their options such as corn, milo, sunflowers, etc. Then they plant the best payback crop with little if any fertilizer and make a weak attempt at weed control. Whatever costs the least and satisfies the best management practice clause of the insurance. Typically that crop happens to be corn.........and corn is our highest water use crop. Dryland corn can work here but only with a good moisture profile along with adequate in season rainfall and most importantly.......very good management. Nobody here would plant big acres of dryland corn into dry dirt and do a sorry job of controlling weeds with their own money on the line. Yet somehow thousands of acres are planted like that every year. Don't you think that a govt. subsidized insurance program just might have something to do with that? Low and behold when the aph is destroyed, another entity happens to take over the land. Rinse and repeat. | |
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Has anyone else seen this crop insurance article ?
